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A check-in based social media service where users check into entertainment media like TV shows, movies, books, music, magazines, Web pages, foods, beverages, video games etc. and win stickers. And these aren't just virtual stickers either. When you accumulate seven stickers, GetGlue will mail them to you as actual physical stickers to plaster on your laptop, refrigerator or whatever.

GetGlue users can check-in using Android, iOS or BlackBerry apps or with GetGlue's Website or mobile Webapp.  They can rate the media they check into, share check-ins on Facebook and Twitter and get discounts and special offers from GetGlue's media partners which include  HBO, AMC, Disney, MTV, the Food Chanel, Sony Entertainment, Simon and Schuster, Universal Pictures and many more.

GetGlue makes the bold claim that its mobile Webapp lets you "easily check-in from any phone" so I put it to the acid test and tried it with the Synbian^3, browser, Opera Mini 6.1 and the Myriad V7 WAP browser on a low end feature phone. GetGlue looked great and worked well with the Symbian browser.  The screenshots show the process of checking-in to a song or album; you chose a category (music), search for media (an artist) and check-in. You can add a comment when checking-in as well as rate,  "like" or "dislike" the the artist and/or write a review.

With the other two browsers, results were not good. When I tried to check-in with Opera Mini, I was redirected to the GetGlue start page and the check-in was not recorded.  With the Myriad browser, GetGlue didn't offer any suggestions and its search failed with every query I tried leaving me with no way to find anything to check-into. I think GetGlue needs to rephrase their claim as "easily check-in from any phone that has a WebKit based browser."

 

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